Job summary
Are you an experienced Team Leader?
Would you like to work for an Outstanding Trust?
Come and work in our friendly Primary Care Health Service which is based in Cygnet House, Ware! The team delivers psychologically informed interventions and other support interventions for those who fall into the gap between Community Mental Health Teams and NHS Talking Therapies Teams.
You will work in collaboration with Primary Care Mental Health Services Manager and other Team Leader colleagues, to ensure the highest standards of practice and service delivery for our service users.
We are looking for a team leader to provide daily leadership and support the team's ongoing development. You will have a registered profession such as nursing, occupational therapy or social work.
This is a great opportunity for someone seeking to develop their leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- provide day to day operational management, leadership, and supervision to Primary Care Mental Health Services Staff
- manage primary care mental health staff which may include EPMHS staff and GP+ staff
- maintain a clinical leadership role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need
- contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures
- work with the Service Manager, to undertake the timely recruitment selection, appointment and induction of team members
- manage all aspects of the team's time i.e. Rota, Time worked, Annual Leave via the E Roster system.
Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Ensure the provision of appropriate triage and advice to individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs, presenting in primary care
- Ensure the liaison with other services or agencies to support the primary care network response to mental health needs in primary care.
- Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities appropriate to primary care.
- Maintain service activities in line with the agreed referral and triage criteria.
- To provide a flexible service, responsive to Service User need and Stakeholder feedback.
- To develop the service in line with Trust strategy
- Maintain an effective skill/ professional personnel mix to provide a multi-professional team approach.
- Put in place systems to investigate and access a wide range of services designed to meet occupational, recreational, social and health needs in primary care.
- To provide information for service development and evaluation through the use of outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
- Implement risk assessment procedures related to the working environment, tasks and client management.
For a more detailed person and Job Description please read the attached before applying
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Ensure the provision of appropriate triage and advice to individuals with severe mental illness and complex needs, presenting in primary care
- Ensure the liaison with other services or agencies to support the primary care network response to mental health needs in primary care.
- Participate in risk assessment and risk management activities appropriate to primary care.
- Maintain service activities in line with the agreed referral and triage criteria.
- To provide a flexible service, responsive to Service User need and Stakeholder feedback.
- To develop the service in line with Trust strategy
- Maintain an effective skill/ professional personnel mix to provide a multi-professional team approach.
- Put in place systems to investigate and access a wide range of services designed to meet occupational, recreational, social and health needs in primary care.
- To provide information for service development and evaluation through the use of outcome measurements, audit and annual service policy review.
- Implement risk assessment procedures related to the working environment, tasks and client management.
For a more detailed person and Job Description please read the attached before applying
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification.
- Evidence of current registration with the NMC, GSCC or HPC.
Desirable
- Cert or Dip. in management.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
- Experience of working within or with primary care services
- Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
- Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.
Desirable
- Experience of working within or with primary care services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification.
- Evidence of current registration with the NMC, GSCC or HPC.
Desirable
- Cert or Dip. in management.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community.
- Experience of working within or with primary care services
- Experience of providing clinical and management supervision.
- Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management.
Desirable
- Experience of working within or with primary care services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Cygnet House, 1 Old College Court, Priory Street, Ware, Hertfordshire, SG12 0DE
1 Old College Court, Priory Street
Ware, Hertfordshire
SG12 0DE
Employer's website
https://www.hpft.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
